Game: Mass Effect 3

[Animeniax]

They added a couple maps, but it's not enough to keep people interested. I'm surprised there are people with 300-400 games. One badass I played with on gold has 400 games and scored 100k points in the 9 rounds we survived. I'm at 80 games and still enjoy it enough but can't see how people play it that long. Pretty much you just keep playing so you can buy packs and hope for the best weapons and perks.

Agreed about the higher levels, you can't do much but stay in cover and snipe. You basically have to play infiltrator if you want to be able to move freely at all.

[darkshadow]

Whenever I play soldier/engineer/vanguard on higher difficulties I move around freely all the time, heck I was moving around freely with a level 8 batarian soldier on silver, with the krogans it's even worse since I can just run around and punch people in the face till like wave 6...soo dunno about this hugging walls 24/7 crap.

And human sentinel has another build: 6/5/3 or 6/3/5; just use powers with this build until you feel like you actually need the tech armour.

[KrayZ33]

you can walk around freely when there are 3 phantoms and ~2 atlases on the field (and ya that amount is actually walking on the field, depending on the wave)
or 4 geth hunter, rocket troopers and 2 gethprimes, i don't think so, never saw anyone running around on gold and survive, in fact everyone who does will pretty much lose you the game.

Manguard might be able to do it, but thats because of their "invincibility" frames whenever they use nova/charge.
not to mention that they are the most boring to play of them all.

[darkshadow]

A krogan will kill any enemy that isn't a boss in 1 hit, even phantoms drop in 1 hit; Ravagers go down in 2 and I think brutes as well, maybe 3.
Which pretty much means krogan vanguard don't care, krogan vanguard don't give a fuck.
And I said move around freely, not move around solo; if you move around in pairs or with the whole team you can just keep moving while mowing down everything.
This was especially true when in my last game I played a batarian soldier and paired up with a salarian engineer, said engineer's decoy ability is absolutely freaking broken when paired up with a powerhouse like the boldier; we just walked around destroying everything in sight.

But yeah I said this is mostly true till like after wave 6, when things just get insane with 4 banshees and 5 brutes walking around.

edit:
People have actually solo'd gold with the krogan/asari vanguard and the salarian infiltrator. So if you just play smart you can move around as much as you want.
Oh and the Geth infiltrator is far far far more broken than the manguard, spec him for pure melee damage like a krogan and watch entire rooms just die when you use heavy melee.

[TwisT]

I haven't played so much lately but i have gotten Batarian Soldier and Geth Engineer. Since i don't play Soldier because it's so boring it will take some time to try him but Geth Engineer is awesome. Love his heavy melee. As a first playthough I'm going with the flamethrower turret but I'm do gonna try out the shield restoring turret and play some gold when i get to level 14-16. Sounds like a godlike team ability. I want the Infiltrator so i can try out the Hunter Mode. Other then that i wanna try out the Krogan Battlemaster and Asari Justicar.

[darkshadow]

Geth engineer with shield restore + geth infiltrator spec'd for melee = broken beyond believe.
And hunter mode is great, I think I spec'd my engineer as 6/5/3.

Also the boldier is waaaay more fun than the normal soldiers, I think they are boring too (well the krogan is kinda fun, cause it's a krogan).
Ditch blade armour abilitly all together and just go 6/0/6 with the boldier and he's a blast to play with.

Also the Justicar is either a godlike team player (geth shield engineer + defensive Justicar is godlike), or a close range wrecking ball. Though for the close range build I prefer the a-adept instead.

[EpyonNext]

A well played Justicar is like God mode for your team.

[darkshadow]

New classes confirmed

Pretty stoked for the Phoenix vanguard and vorcha soldier, they look brutal, also phoenix adept seems to get "smash" which is something different than slam. I think it might be like push but in a wave form.

[darkshadow]

Ok so I just played through all 3 of the extended cut endings and I'm glad Bioware really didn't change anything at all.

Bioware advised to start out at the cerberus base to see all new content, but I really didn't see anything new up until you run to the citadel beam thing. So I'm guessing it's squad specific.
After that you do get to see something new and I advise you to take Garrus and your romance option with you, I took garrus and Tali, but Tali didn't say anything so just bring your romance to be sure.

For the conversation with the catalyst I noticed they removed the dialog where he says "including the geth"; they also removed something else but I forgot.

The endings themselves pretty much disprove the "indoctrination theory" full stop, unless shepard can somehow pretend he's other people (since others do the voiceovers for 3 of the 5 endings).
Also I'm glad I went with the control ending the first time since it becomes apparant that it's clearly the best one:
Control is the best one, overall.
Spoiler: (( Shepard "lives", but not in corporeal form; definitly the paragon ending))
Destroy is almost just as good; morally it's the best because...well you know. But at the same time it's morally not as good as control because of well....all synthetics (geth/edi) and all that.
Spoiler: ((Shepard lives, he still wakes up after the credits; true renegade ending now))
Synthesis is still the absolute worst, but it does have the most...profound epilogues of the 3; it's very 'inspiring' but at the same time completely wrong.
Spoiler: ((Shepard dies, he gets disintegrated; nobody cheers when the reapers get "defeated"; hitler ending.))

Also I'm unable to see the 4th, bad, ending because even at 50% galactic readiness I still have more than enough units (7100+).
I'm actually more intrigued to see if that one got an epilogue, since pretty much every thing died, earth got scorched and nobody exited the normandy.

Edit:
There is actually a 5th ending now, which is basically bioware trolling everyone who wanted a completely new ending; just reject the catalyst's choices to see it.
This one even more disproves indoctrination because:
Spoiler: ((It takes place in the far future where the next cycle is fighting the reapers.))

Also there seems to be a stark difference between Paragon control and Renegade control.
Paragon was hopeful, noble, and humble....Renegade was threatening and dark.

I got someone to upload the bad ending to youtube, and it's actually pretty awesome.

[Animeniax]

I think Shepard being indoctrinated would be antithetical to the character and the entire story of ME. I'm glad they virtually disproved all of the rampant online speculation about it. I wasn't planning to play the DLC, but since Dawnguard doesn't release for Skyrim on PC until next month, I think I will.

[KrayZ33]

the "good" destroy ending is still the best imho
the new refusal one is great too, even though its probably the saddest of them all

the Synthesis one is still the most illogical one for me, too much magic, and it seems "overpowered" in some way.

[TwisT]

Most illogical is that Shepard believes everything the apparition tells him. What have it done to earn such trust. Most logical would be the refusal. Any other of "their" choices could be exactly what the reapers want you to do.

But if you trust his options I feel Control is still the right choice. At last since I'm paragon. Controls give victory without sacrificing anyone. Sure it doesn't kill any reapers but is that all there is to the war? To kill them off and get revenge? Control seems like the paragon choice.

Synthesis is similar except you force "evolution" on everyone. That feels very immoral to me. It also feels like it borders on renegade. It had the added bonus of making the reapers help the universe and share the knowledge they have gained so far. But you can't know that before so you can't say that is why you choose that option.

Destroy feels like the renegade option. Victory at all cost. "Someone have to make the though calls". So renegade Shepard chooses to sacrifice everyone synthetic to make sure you gain victory for the rest of the galaxy. However it is the only choice that guaranties that the reapers are gone for good.

[darkshadow]

So did anyone try it yet?
I managed to unlock the N7 shadows(infil)/destroyer(sol)/demolisher(eng) right away and I have to say these new classes are so awesome.

The shadow is basically a playable phantom with kasumi's shadow strike skill, but with the stealth it forgoes the handlaser thing phantoms have, seriously love this class.
Destroyer is another one that just makes you feel awesome, it's a suped up soldier with lots of shields, stagger resistance, increased fire rate/mag size and a freaking auto-firing shoulder cannon; this class puts the krogan soldier to shame when it comes to pure wrecking power imo.
Demolisher is a mix between a support and highly offensive engineer. You basically get to drop ammo/shield dispensers but at the same time carry around 7 arc/explosive grenades, which ofcourse refill if you just place another dispenser.

The 3 others I haven't unlocked yet are the N7 Fury(ad), Paladin(sen) and Slayer(van) but I have seen them in action.
Fury seems to be the most powerful adept in the game, she pretty much seems like a playable banshee...without all the ugly.
Paladin has a freaking riot shield and can instantly freeze enemies that get too close.
Slayer is the other playable phantom but instead of stealth, you get the handlaser; charge seems different too, it's more like a teleport slash now.

Oh and platinum difficulty is pretty freaking hard; you start off against your regular faction, but they will have champions right away.
After the second wave or so suddenly the other factions will join..so you'll have to deal with banshees, primes and atlasses all in one wave.

[KrayZ33]

since this is wave defense again I doubt anyone is going to bother, could be wrong though.


free dlc? or do you have to pay for that little

[darkshadow]

All of the MP DLC is free...it says so in the trailer.

[animus]

I'm actually surprised people still play the multiplayer. I guess it makes sense since it's required for "better endings", and there's been sales for ME3 and what not.

[Animeniax]

I'm actually surprised people still play the multiplayer. I guess it makes sense since it's required for "better endings", and there's been sales for ME3 and what not.

Ha I posted a similar comment on an fb post from ME3 about the new DLC. They had another multiplayer special mission weekend and it was successfully completed so I guess people do still play.

[darkshadow]

It's not required for better endings at all.

[Animeniax]

Isn't that for the player to judge?

[darkshadow]

Isn't that for the player to judge?